Author Archives: seanmulvany

€135M and Counting to Irish Companies – European Innovation Council Accelerator Grants

Posted on May 25, 2021 by seanmulvany

The European Innovation Council (EIC) is focussed on the issue of converting the research occurring in the EU into impact through startups. Over the last 25 years, the EU has become ever more ambitious with funding pan-European research programmes. However, … Continue reading →

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Huge Potential In AgTech and FoodTech Innovation

Posted on May 20, 2021 by seanmulvany

Food and agriculture in Ireland continue to be important sectors in terms of jobs and exports. Many of the major home grown multinationals here are in food like Glanbia and Kerry Group. Primary production in agriculture involves almost 150,000 farmers. … Continue reading →

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Quantifying The Impact of Covid19 On Working From Home

Posted on May 17, 2021 by seanmulvany

One thing I’m interested in is the myriad impacts of Covid 19 on our lives. For many of us lucky enough to have jobs that can be done in part or whole from the home, this has resulted in a … Continue reading →

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Energy Data For Ireland

Posted on May 15, 2021 by seanmulvany

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. It gathers together the statistics from each member state’s statistics office, like our own CSO and aggregates and analyses from there. They’ve been making great strides recently towards making the data … Continue reading →

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Q1 2021 Seed Investment Data

Posted on May 14, 2021 by seanmulvany

Each quarter, the Irish Venture Capital Association release an overview of the investments made in companies here. Many (about 40-60%) of deals are undisclosed. However, those that are can reveal useful trends in who is investing how much in what. … Continue reading →

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Moving (back) to WordPress

Posted on May 14, 2021 by seanmulvany

I’ve spent the last few years playing with various frameworks like React and Angular (even Java and NetBeans) and using a lot of Bootstrap to roll my own websites to do various things. I think it’s time – after a … Continue reading →

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HealthBox 2013

Posted on January 21, 2013 by seanmulvany

I was at the HealthBox Open Day in London last Thursday where 7 mHealth companies pitched for investment to an invited audience. The companies had participated in the HealthBox 3 month accelerator programme developing aspects of their business as diverse … Continue reading →

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